Last Sunday’s message was good.

Posted on Jul 7, 2016 in Devotions |

Good in the sense that I prayed for the leading of the Holy Spirit as I prepared the message for my church family. Good, in that I was ready emotionally and spiritually when it was time to present the message. And, good because I received enough feedback to assess it was heard and not just listened to.

But something happened just before my final prayer or benediction that I didn’t expect:  at the end of our second service I shared the most  important things, off my “teleprompter/iPad” and almost as an afterthought. 
 
You could listen to my message of 7-3-16 on our webpage (www.ucmc.us) to get the context (and text, Psalm 46:1-3) but I launched off of Chicken Little’s “The Sky Is Falling”. 

With all the changes going on in our culture it seems like the sky might be falling.  But my conclusion was the sky is NOT falling, we know who and where the King of Kings is, the church of Jesus Christ is living in its greatest days in a thousand years, and we don’t get eaten by Foxey Loxey (or anything the world throws at us as Christ-followers)!

Here was my almost afterthought ending:  If there is no such thing as absolute moral truth (and everything is relative: lying is unimportant, commitment to marriage covenants are only necessary as it suits us, and who are you/we to judge anyone on anything) – take that idea to its logical end.  A culture, family, or individual who insists there are no moral absolutes will lead to dysfunction in our family units, corruption of institutions and the human soul, and chaos (complete disorder and confusion).

I believe we are closer to the chaos part than we want to believe.

 

Pastor Mark